The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Tuesday that it canceled 315,000 Affordable Care Act marketplace plans covering about 760,000 people last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration documentation and suspected improper enrollments, Reuters reported. The agency disclosed the cancellations in rulemaking documents published in the Federal Register.
Administration officials told The Wall Street Journal that the effort was led by the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, headed by Vice President JD Vance, and that ending the subsidy payments tied to those enrollments would save an estimated $2.2 billion, according to a report citing the Journal. The savings figure is an administration estimate, not an audited result.
